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There seem to be plenty of hackers who think it is good fun to break into other people's computer systems and steal their data. Some of them are even glorified

There seem to be plenty of hackers who think it is good fun to break into other people's computer systems and steal their data. Some of them are even glorified by the IT community. So I don't think morals are necessarily the strong point of programmers and engineers.

mpyne 12y ago
As an example, look at all the people who simultaneously supported Sabu hacking into government computers and email when it was part of LulzSec and opposed Sibu hacking into Brazilian computers and email when it was part of FBI. The "ethics" of these hackers isn't even about what people do, it's about who they do it against.